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1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
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A number of UNM graduate students present with Juan Guerra at the opening panel of the 2013 Writing the World Symposium. The panel focused on the history and future of Writing Across Communities at UNM.
Professor Luci Tapahonso reads at the My Favorite Poem event held in Zimmerman Library.
Helen Damico, Ruth Salvaggio, and Minrose Gwin admire the new display case featuring Hector Torres and Pat Smith's memorabilia. A reception took place on April 22 dedicating our new lounge as the Patricia Clark Smith and Hector Avalos Torres Memorial Lounge.
Professors Kathleen Washburn, Gail Houston, Daniel Worden, and Lisa Chavez congratulate John Nichols (second from left) after he gave the 2012 Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture during the fall semester.
Dr. Feroza Jussawalla's Postcolonial Seminar course meets with Naomi Shihab Nye courtesy of the Lannan Foundation (photo taken by Don J. Usner and posted with permission).
Vianey Veleta and Alexa Marquez, students in a learning community that includes a first year writing class and a finance course, present at the bi-annual Celebration of Student Writing.
Dr. Chaoheng Huang (pictured here with Department Chair, Dr. Gail Houston) is visiting our Department this year from Wuhan University of Science & Technology in Hubei, China to compare writing instruction in the U.S. with that in China.
Students in English classes regularly visit historical sites in New Mexico and elsewhere. Here, Dr. Feroza Jussawalla's class visits the Lawrence Ranch in Taos, NM.
New Mexico is a great place to live and study. The annual Balloon Fiesta is just one of the many events in the Albuquerque/Santa Fe area that students and faculty in our Department regularly enjoy.
The English Department welcomed a large number of new faculty this year. Here are the new Rhetoric and Writing faculty members on their first day.
The Department has a group of amazing staff members that keep everything running smoothly.
Dr. Carolyn Woodward's Survey of Earlier English Literature class bows at the end of their performance of Twelfth Night. In addition to engaging with literary works in the classroom, students bring them to life through theatrical performances such as this.
The English Department is home to faculty with diverse research and teaching interests.
Congratulations to the three English doctoral students who were recently awarded Bilinski Foundation Fellowships. These fellowships will support the research of Dan Cryer, Colleen Dunn, and Douglas van Benthuysen as they work to complete their dissertations.
Gail Turley Houston's fourth book, Victorian Women Writers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God has been published by Ohio State University Press in their new Religion and Postsecular Society series. In this book, Houston considers Florence Nightingale, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and other writers vis-a-vis radical British women socialists and feminists from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Welcome to the UNM Department of English Literature and Language webpage. Our mission is to engage in language, writing, research, teaching, and public service that advance understanding of English literature and our expanding heritage of literatures in English.
I believe that the field of English literature and language remains significant both in times of economic hardship and wellbeing because literature and language, writing and critical thinking are crucial not only to identifying our society’s values but also to examining how and why all cultures have ethical, aesthetic, social, spiritual, emotional, and economic value systems.
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Taos Summer Writers' Conference
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Writing Across Communities
We educate students for global lives in the new century, lives in which the ability to communicate fluently across boundaries is essential. |
American Literary Realism
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Blue Mesa Review
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Sigma Tau Delta
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English Graduate Student Association
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Originally founded by Rudolfo Anaya, Gene Frumkin, David Johnson, Patricia Clark Smith, and Lee Bartlette in 1989 - the department's entirely student run literary magazine. 
